Study it in the app“But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.”
ButἀλλὰI haveἔχωthisagainstκατὰyou,σοῦthatὅτιyou tolerateἀφεῖςthe womanτὴν γυναῖκαJezebel,Ἰεζάβελwho callsἡ λέγουσαherselfἑαυτὴνa prophetess,προφῆτινandκαὶshe teachesδιδάσκειandκαὶdeceivesπλανᾷmyτοὺς ἐμοὺςslavesδούλουςto commit sexual immoralityπορνεῦσαιandκαὶto eatφαγεῖνfood sacrificed to idols.εἰδωλόθυτα
have
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echō” appearsallow
To permit: the children coming to Jesus.
Where else “apheis” appearswoman
An adult female person; when addressing her, a respectful form.
Where else “gynaika” appearsJezebel
Jezebel: the wife of King Ahab of Israel, who promoted idolatry; in Revelation, the name given to a woman in Thyatira.
Where else “Iezabel” appearscall
To call someone by a name.
Where else “legousa” appearsprophetess
Prophetess.
Where else “prophētin” appearsteach
Teach.
Where else “didaskei” appearslead astray
To lead others the wrong way.
Where else “planai” appearsmy, mine
My, mine.
Where else “emous” appearsslave
A person who belongs to a master and serves him.
Where else “doulous” appearscommit sexual immorality
Commit sexual immorality: have sexual relations outside marriage; also, in a figurative sense, be unfaithful to God by joining in idolatry.
Where else “porneusai” appearseat
Eat.
Where else “phagein” appearsfood offered to idols
What has been sacrificed to an idol, especially meat.
Where else “eidōlothyta” appears“Jezebel”: it is the name of the queen who promoted idolatry in Israel (1 Kings 16-21); it can be understood as a symbolic name. Many manuscripts read “your wife Jezebel.”
19I know your works, and your love and faith and service and endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
20 · This verse (above)
21And I gave her time to change her mind, and she does not want to change her mind from her sexual immorality.
